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Third, he slew at Crommyon the sow that was called Phaea after the old woman who bred
it;1 that sow,
some say, was the offspring of Echidna and Typhon.

1 Compare Bacch.
17(18).23ff., ed. Jebb; Diod. 4.59.4; Plut. Thes. 9; Paus. 2.1.3; Hyginus, Fab.
38, who calls the animal a boar. Plutarch notices a rationalistic version of
the story, which converted the sow Phaea into a female robber of that name. No ancient
writer but Apollodorus mentions the old woman Phaea who nursed the sow, but she appears
on vase paintings which represent the slaughter of the sow by Theseus. See
Baumeister, Denkmäler des klassischen Altertums, iii.
pp. 1787ff., 1789, fig. 1873; Hofer, in W. H. Roscher, Lexikon der
griech. und röm. Mythologie, ii.1450ff.

Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.

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